Nvidia N1 (20SM) vs Apple M3 Pro GPU (18-core)
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Nvidia N1 (20SM)
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Apple M3 Pro GPU (18-core)
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We performed a head-to-head comparison of the Nvidia N1 (20SM) with 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders against the 2 years and 8 months older Apple M3 Pro GPU (18-core) that utilizes 288 pipelines and 2304 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Please note that the tests on the Nvidia N1 (20SM) are done on an engineering sample provided by our insiders. The data will be more accurate after the final version of this GPU is available.
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Nvidia N1 (20SM)
- 94% higher maximum theoretical performance (12.4 vs 6.4 TFLOPS)
- Has 78% higher memory bandwidth: 273.2 vs 153.6 GB/s
Reasons to consider the Apple M3 Pro GPU (18-core)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 3 nm process technology
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Solar Bay | - | 22637 |
| Wild Life Extreme | - | 14021 |
GeekBench 6 GPU Compute
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | - | 82.1 img/sec |
| Face Detection | - | 53.6 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | - | 1.82 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | - | 2.59 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | - | 1.84 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | - | 0.48 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | - | 148.6 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | - | 4893.9 FPS |
| API | - | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | - | 5578 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | - | 9924 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | - | 13323 |
| Face Detection (HP) | - | 19900 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | - | 35730 |
| Text Classification (SP) | - | 2904 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | - | 4985 |
| Object Detection (SP) | - | 5496 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | - | 23344 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | - | 78342 |
| Framework | - | Core ML |
| Backend | - | GPU |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Nvidia N1 (20SM) and Apple M3 Pro GPU (18-core)General
| Vendor | Nvidia | Apple |
| Build | Discrete | Integrated |
| Released | June 1, 2026 | October 31, 2023 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Professional | Professional |
| Segment | Entry-level | Mid-range |
| Architecture | Blackwell (N1x) | Apple M GPU |
| GPU Codename | GB20B | Custom |
| Rival Equivalent | - | - GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop |
| Successor | - | - Apple M5 Pro GPU (20-core) |
| Recommended CPU | - | - Apple M3 Pro or above |
| Used in CPUs | - | - Apple M3 Pro |
Laptop GPU ranking (#61st place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1665 MHz | 500 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2418 MHz | 1380 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2560 | 2304 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 160 | 144 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 24 | 72 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 20 | 288 |
| Tensor Cores | 80 | - |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 20 | - |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | - |
| L2 Cache | 50MB shared | - |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 58 GPixel/s | 99 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 387 GTexel/s | 199 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | Custom |
| TGP | - | 30 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 5 nm | 3 nm |
| Transistor Count | - | 25.2 billion |
| Max. Temperature | - | 100°C |
Memory
| Memory Type | System Shared | System Shared |
| Memory Clock | - | 6400 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | - | 12800 Mbps |
| Bus | 256-bit | 192-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| OpenCL | 3.0 | - |
| CUDA | 12.1 | - |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | - | No |
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